[Solved..?] Question about bars

[Lezalith]

Hi everyone, I hope you're having a fantastic day.

Let's say we have a bar. This bar is long 820px and has range of 100. It indicates a variable that has a minimum of 0 and maximum of 100.

The way I imagined this to work is that range is going to be the maximum value of variable (100). Each time the value would increase by, let's say, 10, the bar would grow by 82px, up to the maximum of value = 100 and bar length of 820px.

It even sounds logical. Why does my bar reach the maximum length of 820 when the value is about 65 out of 100?

[gas]

Post your code and let's see!

[Lezalith]

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        bar:
            xpos 391
            ypos 50
            ysize 50
            value AnimatedValue(value=skillValueNew, old_value=skillValueOld, delay=2, range=100)
            left_bar "screens/teaching/teaching_baronly.png"
            right_bar "GUI/Config/empty.png"
            thumb None

The skillValueNew and skillValueOld come from many different calculations, all of them work the same, however. Here is one of them, although don't think that's where the issue is.

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        $ skillValueOld = LeadershipValue
        $ MoodAffection = (- MoodAfraid + MoodPressured)
        if MoodAffection > 0:
            $ MoodAffection = MoodAffection + 2
        else:
            pass
        $ TeachingPoints = (MoodAffection + 6)*1.66667
        $ LeadershipValue = (skillValueOld + TeachingPoints)
        $ LeadershipValue = round(LeadershipValue, 3)
        $ skillValueNew = LeadershipValue

Just in case someone can't read that, it basically stores LeadershipValue in skillValueOld, then takes TeachingPoints (Which is a combination of base value of 1.66667 plus MoodAffection) and adds them to the skillValueOld, creating a new value for LeadershipValue. This is then stored in skillValueNew purely for the purpose of animated bar.

This math stuff is actually done right (and always) before the bar is shown.

[gas]

Try something like (it worked for me)

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    $ mybar=AnimatedValue(value=skillValueNew, old_value=skillValueOld, delay=2, range=100)
    bar value mybar xalign 0.5 yalign 0.1 xsize 820 #and other style stuff

If that doesn't work, there's surely something wrong with the math (tried the variable inspector?)

[Lezalith]

Didn't work for me.

But hey, this is weird:
I went to check how long actually is the added part of the bar, it says 134px.
Then I went on and recreate the bar with the same values into a new project, and it added 86px.

Then I had the idea of adding xmaximum. That shouldn't do much, because the teaching_baronly.png is of the exact needed width, but it changed the 134px to 88px. And I think I'll go with that, Because now it's only about 60px off of what it should be, but since it's an animated bar it's not all that recognizable.